Author: Editors of Fine Homebuilding Publisher: Taunton Press ISBN: 1561585378 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 164
Book Description
This book provides tips and advice from contractors and builders from all over the country to provide the best advice on formwork, foundations, waterproofing, reinforcement and related topics.
Author: Fine Homebuilding Publisher: ISBN: 9781631869136 Category : Concrete footings Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Foundations & Concrete Work is the definitive guide to laying a foundation that will not fail to support the home above it. The latest edition of this best-selling includes 17 new articles from the editors of Fine Homebuilding and revised content throughout, all focused on helping builders form and pour the absolute highest-quality foundations. With 375 on-the-job photographs and illustrations, and 272 pages chock-full of advice, tips, and tricks from the world's foremost home building experts, Foundations & Concrete Work is the only book on the subject that builders will ever need.
Author: P. C. Varghese Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. ISBN: 8120336151 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 452
Book Description
It explains step-by-step procedure for the design of each type of foundation with the help of a large number of worked-out examples. The book provides an in-depth analysis of topics, such as wall footings, balanced footings, raft foundations, beam and slab rafts, pile caps and pile foundations.
Author: Ken Nolan Publisher: ISBN: 9781572182370 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
This comprehensive concrete manual has the information you need, both the tried-and-tested methods and materials, and recent innovations. It covers styrofoam forming systems, fiber reinforcing adjuncts, and architectural innovations. Forming, one of the most important elements of concrete work, gets special attention. Every chapter provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for each task, with hundreds of photographs and drawings that show exactly how the work is done.
Author: T. W. Love Publisher: Craftsman Book Company ISBN: 9780910460033 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 182
Book Description
Concrete as a building material -- Concrete mix compounds -- Proportioning concrete mix -- Excavation -- Laying out the building -- Design of concrete forms -- Form materials and how to use them -- Construction of pier and footing forms -- Construction of foundation wall forms -- Formwork for openings in concrete walls -- Formwork for steps -- Formwork for floors and sidewalk slabs -- How to make beam and girder forms -- Forms for arched openings -- Handling and placing concrete -- Finishing concrete -- Curing and patching concrete -- Effects of temperature -- Reinforced concrete construction -- Precast concrete -- Cleaning concrete and masonry methods -- Appendix A : Method of making slump test for consistency of Portland cement concrete -- Appendix B : Estimating quantities and labor hours for concrete, forms and reinforcing.
Author: Commissioners of Accounts Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780265044322 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 64
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Excerpt from Report on Concrete Foundations for Pavements: With Special Reference to Work of That Nature in the Borough of Brooklyn City of New York During the Year 1902 However that may be, the fact remains that even though the value of the active cement be thus increased (a point which I am not prepared to argue), there still remains in the mixture a large amount of a very finely-ground material, physically and chemically inactive, as far as its cementing properties go, and representing nothing more valuable in the cement, after it has been ground, than so much very fine sand, and in a concrete, nothing more than so much extra sand, so fine that no engineer would ever allow a contractor to use it in concrete if it were separate from the cement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author: Editors of Fine Homebuilding
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